Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible. . . If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.
I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.